Tiny Swedish design firm Orkan Lia, consisting mostly of fashionista Karolina Svensson, has been part of the Swedish vintage revival and doing one-of-a-kind dresses and other fashion clothing using recycled and

Arts and Literature have given us Soylent Green and The Matrix, suggesting human bodies as raw material. Usually this makes people grimace and shiver. But in the Swedish town of Halmstad, it will soon make people warm and cozy.

We wrote earlier about the creative recycling of a 747 into a hostel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. After all, if you can't afford the five thousand bucks to sleep on a 380 to Dubai, you can squeeze into the former queen of the skies for fifty bucks if

Kids in Japan love their cell phones, but not everyone is happy about the way they are used. Five years ago, a prestigious university in Japan failed 26 students for receiving exam answers on their cell phones. Now, frequent

"Snus" or snuff is popular in Sweden and Norway. It's considered perfectly polite and socially acceptable to insert a small snuff packet in between lip and gum while you are sitting at a dinner table with friends or waiting in line for the tram.

The 'kycklingdebat' or chicken debate is hot in Swedes' minds since Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), on of the country's two main dailies, published a long report on the short lives of the 74 million chickens annually born and bred

The Swedish team behind the award-winning film The Planet is in Japan to film their next feature documentary about mind change, called The Plan. Travelling to some 15 countries, David Österberg and Michael Stenberg are exploring how leading scientists

Scenes from MalmÃ¶, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- BjÃ¶rn SÃ¶derqvist @ flickr.
Portland, San Francisco, and New York. These three cities consistently rise to the top of U.S. and even global lists of great green cities. And while these cities,

The house-in-a-greenhouse probably wouldn't play very well in say, Arizona, where enclosing your house in glass shell would be folly. But Bengt Warne, a Swedish architect, starting designing what he called the Naturhus (Nature House) in 1976 to work

The mainstream wind establishment has a hard time getting excited about vertical turbines - they've been around for too long without a major market breakthrough. But right now it's a bit of the big wind versus little wind question. Vertical wind turbines